Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-29
PERSONAL.

| ST. PETERSBURG DISPATCH says the Car
| and Czarina are arranging for a tour of Eu-
| rome In the spring.
MINISTER PHELPS is much censured in
London for his somewhat rude refusal to at.
tend the dinner given to Stanley, the eX-
plorer.
HENRY IRVING saws his unsuccessful at
tempt 10 establish the reserved seat system in
the PIT Of his London Lyceum Theatre cost
him $4,000
PAT CoNNELLY OF Galveston has become a
raylng maniac through the persistent reading
Of Henry Georges books and dwelling upon
the wild theories therein advanced.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND Is quoted as saving
that he Will not appoint any defeated Con-
gresham on the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. SO Messrs. Morrison, ConEer, Hurd.
Van Myck, Miller ana the rest are out of the
lists.
PLASTER Of Paris sketch of William
Penn, winch Is to cap the dome of the Phila-
delpha Cltv Hall Tower, when completed.
has been finished. The figure will he thirty.
three feet high, and the sketch is quarter
size.
THE SULTAN of Morocco has had his feel
lnPs hurt by the obstlnacy Of the press in
complaining of the continued sale OF Young
girls IN his domInlons. He wants editors
bowstrlnged and the newspaper business in
Tansiers wiped out
RALPH WALDO EMERSON was not what the
New GOrk sun would call an educated man
A smattering OF some branches of knowledge
he undoubtedly had. but his most ardent ad-
mirers confess that he was utterly ignorant
Of the game OF poker.
TEE MARRIAGE of Miss Randall. daughter
OF Hon, samuel J. Randall, to Mr.. c. c. Lam
caster, of the w ashlngtOu bar, % amour ced
for Feb. I. The ceremony will take place at
the Randall residence, Washington, and will
be followe by reception.
COL. DAN LAMONT is said to sigh for the
GAYS when he was newspaper reporter. The
old instinct Is so strong within him that the
necessity for allowing SO many scoops" 10
sliD by IS beginning to have a deleter!ous eff
feet upon his constitution.
THE Emperor Of Germany has expressed
the wish TO meet Victoria IN her JUDI ee and
his goth year. The question OF ChauerOnage
agitates diplomats minds. The meeting may
be arranged for the coming summer. Ii
might help peace, if peace lasts until then
FRANCIS A. WALKER. Of Boston Mug.
wump), is quoted as remarklng: with such
a man as MIR. Manning at the head of the
Treasury Department, whose ability and
sound judgment are so prominent, the INDIE
pendent Repu blicans DO not regret voting for
Mr. Cleveland.
Mr.. HowELLs' play has been Withdrawn
from the New IorI stage, and 1t is not likely
mat 1t VIII again see the io0tl ghts. There
does not seem to have been enough in Mr.
Howrlls' career thus far rs a dramatist to
lead him to write down Shakespeare rs a
EDWIN BoorH has given 700 volumes to the
Winter Memorial Library on Staten Island.
lie wrote on the ly leaf OF each book: For
the w Winter Memorial Library, with afec-
Tomato remem brance OF little Artie. from his
fathers friend, Edwin Booth" The library
Is In memory OF VIII am I. Winters son.
Arthur, whe was Killed while he was coast.
ing,
FRED DOUGLASS and Theodore Titon went
about Paris q great zeal together and at
tracted much attention, both being large.
distinguished looking men with massive
heads OF white hair. They dtued together at
n restaurant, and a treuchman afterWatd
said TO Mr.. Tilton: when / saw you and
your brother together here, although could,
OF course, understand nothing that you said,
made I'D my MIND from the refined modula.
ton OF Your voices that you must both be ora
tors. | should like to ask II in EnalAnd IL II
usual TO have 80 brothers 50 equally gifted
ana experienced IN public speakihgV
GEN. PLEAsONToS saws that during his
career he has been in l05 different engage
meuts and has never been wounded, At
Brandy station a certain Confederate sharp-
shooter was ordered to pick him on. lie got
within 400 wards Of the General, took careful
aim. and shot a member of the stan on the
left. lie hred again and Killed q man on the
right. Then he crawled up nearer and
waited TIL + easanton was perfectly station
airy. lie hred and again missed his target.
The shArpsno ter then gave up IN despair.
dec airing that he had never before failed t.
hit after three SD 'ts. A few q avs ago he sent
his compliments " Gen. PleasoEton.